The ALMANACH Project: Preliminary Results and potentiality from Afghanistan

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Keywords

Child, Facility-based health worker, Community-based health worker, Access to information or data, Supply of services, Diversity of treatment options, Usability, Effectiveness, Child Health, Infectious, parasitic and vector-borne disease, Vector-Borne, Respiratory tract infections (URI, LRI, OM), Diarrheal disease, Supportive supervision, Electronic decision support, Provider-to-provider communication, Disease diagnosis / Point-of-care diagnostics